YouTube's 20 most watched adverts of 2012

The advertising world has embraced viral videos in 2012 bringing creativity,
humour and sometimes sheer star-power. YouTube has compiled its top twenty
online offerings from this year.

3:44PM GMT 13 Dec 2012

The crown this year goes to Nike's love letter to the beautiful game, My Time is Now, which features a roll-call of the world's best footballers.

Old Spice, once associated with Henry Cooper and fathers of the 1970s, has managed to secure three places on the list, while car manufacturers Chrysler and Volkswagen capitalised on their Superbowl campaigns. Here's the top ten: